I thank the Lord Jesus Christ for the talent He has bestowed on all of us!
I have been artistic all of my life and love experimenting with different mediums and techniques. This blog is my creative outlet to share my passion for cardmaking and papercrafting!

If
you have not already had a chance to stop by the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog or the other challenge sites yet, I
hope you will find time to do so- gorgeous inspiration from all!

To
create this card:

Ink
the main image from Our Savior’s Birth stamp set with archival black ink, stamp onto
white cardstock and water color with watercolor pencils and use a clear glitter pen to add shimmer.

Carefully
fussy-cut the legs and part of the manger image to fit within the ODBD Pierced Ovals Dies, die cut and emboss the oval and mount onto an oval cut using the same
size die from dark navy cardstock.

I
love creating Christmas cards all year long but find that I am a bit behind my
normal schedule for this year- yikes! I will be
sharing a few more Christmas cards over the next few weeks trying to play "catch up" :-)

If you have not had a
chance to visit The Artistic Outpost Blog or the other challenge sites yet, I
encourage you to do so- great inspiration from my sister Design Team at the AO
Blog as well as from the other challenge DT and galleries!

Trim the background
panel into three vertical strips (between the bottle caps) and use water based
markers in red, emerald green and turquoise to color the bottle caps in the
center panel.

Use a water brush
with vintage photo distress ink to age the three panels and stamp the large splatter
image from AO Grunge Elements with vintage photo distress ink over the three
panels as well.

Use a heat tool to
dry the ink and apply picket fence distress stain over the two outside panels
to tone down the color, layered the center panel onto black cardstock, trim and
mount onto white cardstock, trim and mount once more onto black cardstock.

Die cut a tag from
white cardstock with the ODBD Tag Trio Dies and also cut the same size die from
black cardstock.

Create the background
for the tag by repeating the steps above for the outer bottle caps panels and mount
the black die cut tag behind the background tag (splitting the black tag in half
to frame the background tag).

Die cut three banners
for the lower part of the tag with the ODBD Bitty Borders Dies- one from
turquoise, one from black and one from bright green cardstock, layering each so
a bit of the color will show behind the tag.

Ink the girl image
from AO Ice Cream Shoppe with archival black ink, stamp onto white cardstock, watercolor
with water based markers, fussy-cut and mount onto black cardstock (fussy-cut again before adding to the tag).

Mount the entire tag onto
the card front with dimensional foam, die cut the bow from bright green
cardstock using the ODBD Mini Bow Die, mount onto the top of the tag and add
the turquoise button to the center.

Ink the sentiment
from AO Ice Cream Shoppe with embossing ink, stamp onto black cardstock, heat emboss with white embossing powder, trim the sentiment by
hand once the embossing has cooled and mount onto the tag. Use a clear glitter pen to add shimmer to the ice cream cone and colored bottle caps in the background to finish off the card.

I am so thankful that
you visited me today and hope I have inspired you to create a project this week! Hugs and have a great week, my friends!

If
you have not already visited the above challenge sites, I hope you will have a
chance to do so- fabulous inspiration from my DT Sisters at the SCS Sketch
Gallery as well as the other Splitcoaststampers’ galleries and the gorgeous Word
Art Wednesday challenge site!

I hope all of you are having a great
week so far! Today, I am sharing this quick Mixed Media Clean and Layered card for
the 2016 Cat Lover’s Blog Hop.

I absolutely love kitties and over the course of forty+ years, I have had six kitties (two sets of three)- my two remaining "girls" are twelve at this time and with the exception of needing to lose a bit of weight, are in good health. They are my constant stamping companions and are always close to my side :-)

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Fall/Autumn is my favorite time of year with all of
the glorious colors that nature has on display here on the East Coast.

I was inspired by our recent trips to Skyline Drive and wanted to create a card using the oak images from SU! Lovely As A Tree- for some reason, the oak tree and oak leaf images have not been inked as often as the others in this stamp set, so they were begging for some “love” :-)

This photo was taken along Skyline Drive last week- the colors were not quite peak yet- they were a bit brighter today but I have not uploaded those photos yet :-)

I was inspired by our recent trips to Skyline Drive and wanted to create a card using the oak images from SU! Lovely As A Tree- for some reason, the oak tree and oak leaf images have not been inked as often as the others in this stamp set, so they were begging for some “love” :-)

If you have not had a chance to do so, I hope you will stop by the SU-Only Challenge site to check
out the rest of the Design Team projects as well as the other challenge
galleries- fabulous inspiration from all!

To create this card:

Ink the oak tree and oak leaves images from Stampin’ Up! (SU!) Lovely
As A Tree with Basic Black Archival Ink, stamp onto a piece of Whisper White
cardstock and heat set with the Heat Tool.

Using Stampin’ Write Markers- Hello Honey, Cajun Craze and Old
Olive for the leaves and Soft Suede for the trunk and acorn (use an
AquaPainter™ to blend the ink).

Fussy-cut the oak leaves and use the Big Shot™ with the Circle
Framelits™ to die cut the oak tree (also cutting two circles the same size from
Cajun Craze cardstock). Layer the Cajun
Craze circles behind the oak tree image.

Use the Big Shot™ with the Woodgrain Textured Impressions™
Embossing Folder to emboss a piece of Old Olive cardstock, trim and mount onto
a piece of Cajun Craze cardstock, trim and mount onto the Extra Thick Whisper
White card base.

Lightly sponge Sahara Sand Classic Ink in the interior of the
Woodland Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder before inserting a piece of Whisper White
cardstock, emboss with the Big Shot™, trim the panel, mount onto a piece of
Cajun Craze cardstock and adhere to the card front.

Add a scrap piece of Crushed Curry cardstock (oops! I just realized that I pulled Crushed Curry
out by mistake versus Hello Honey), frayed piece of 1 ¼” Burlap Ribbon and a
sliver of Cajun Craze cardstock (I found all of these in my scrap bin- the Crushed
Curry and Cajun Craze pieces were previously embossed with the Woodgrain EF and
ready to go).

Stamp the sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes with Basic Black
Archival Ink, eat set with the Heat Tool, create the banner points by hand,
mount onto a piece of Cajun Craze cardstock and trim close to the edge.

Add the sentiment along with the fussy-cut leaves and oak tree
image with Stampin’ Dimensionals®.

Finish off the card by applying Clear Wink of Stella® to the
leave on the tree as well as the fussy-cut leaves.

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